Highcharts - how to add additional information to

Question

Example fiddle: link

source:

$(function () {
        $('#container').highcharts({
            chart: {
                type: 'area'
            },
            title: {
                text: 'xxx'
            },
            subtitle: {
                text: 'Source: <a href="http://thebulletin.metapress.com/content/c4120650912x74k7/fulltext.pdf">'+
                    'thebulletin.metapress.com</a>'
            },
            xAxis: {
                labels: {
                    formatter: function() {
                        return this.value; // clean, unformatted number for year
                    }
                }
            },
            yAxis: {
                title: {
                    text: 'Nuclear weapon states'
                },
                labels: {
                    formatter: function() {
                        return this.value / 1000 +'k';
                    }
                }
            },
            tooltip: {
                pointFormat: '{series.name} produced <b>{point.y:,.0f}</b><br/>warheads in {point.x}'
            },
            plotOptions: {
                area: {
                    pointStart: 1940,
                    marker: {
                        enabled: false,
                        symbol: 'circle',
                        radius: 2,
                        states: {
                            hover: {
                                enabled: true
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            series: [{
                name: 'Inbound',
                data: [null, null, null, null, null, 6 , 11, 32, 110, 235, 369, 640,
                    1005, 1436, 2063, 3057, 4618, 6444, 9822, 15468, 20434, 24126,
                    27387, 29459, 31056, 31982, 32040, 31233, 29224, 27342, 26662,
                    26956, 27912, 28999, 28965, 27826, 25579, 25722, 24826, 24605,
                    24304, 23464, 23708, 24099, 24357, 24237, 24401, 24344, 23586,
                    22380, 21004, 17287, 14747, 13076, 12555, 12144, 11009, 10950,
                    10871, 10824, 10577, 10527, 10475, 10421, 10358, 10295, 10104 ]
            }, {
                name: 'Outbound',
                data: [null, null, null, null, null, null, null , null , null ,null,
                5, 25, 50, 120, 150, 200, 426, 660, 869, 1060, 1605, 2471, 3322,
                4238, 5221, 6129, 7089, 8339, 9399, 10538, 11643, 13092, 14478,
                15915, 17385, 19055, 21205, 23044, 25393, 27935, 30062, 32049,
                33952, 35804, 37431, 39197, 45000, 43000, 41000, 39000, 37000,
                35000, 33000, 31000, 29000, 27000, 25000, 24000, 23000, 22000,
                21000, 20000, 19000, 18000, 18000, 17000, 16000]
            }]
        });
    });

What I need to get is these red / gray rectangles at the top of chart.

Is it possible to get it with highcharts? I so, how to do that? Maybe any suggestion?

Answer 1

Set stacking: 'normal', see: http://jsfiddle.net/x3zPB/

Answer 2

If i understand correctly, you need to add new "bar" series to your chart. Then you will be able to add the corret data to those bar series and you will have the expected result.

series: [{
            type: 'bar',
                name: 'BarSerie',
                data: [3, 2, 1, 3, 4]
        }]